Claim Arose from a BPA, Not a Contract. How Did the ASBCA Assert Jurisdiction Over the Appeal?February 9, 2023
Contract Contained Options But Task Order Didn’t. Was the Agency Required to Exercise Options Under the Task Order?February 9, 2023
DFARS Interim Rule – Restriction on Acquisition of Personal Protective Equipment and Certain Items From Non-Allied Foreign NationsFebruary 9, 2023
Protester Consulted with Former Agency Official But Claimed It Didn’t Get an Unfair Advantage. GAO Disagreed. Why Was Disqualification of the Protester Warranted?February 8, 2023
JV Partners Worked on Past Contracts as Prime and Sub, not as a JV. Why Was the Agency Allowed to Attribute these Past Contracts to their JV?February 8, 2023
OHA Reverses Itself. Turns Out Initiating Litigation Is an Extraordinary Action, Not Just Part of Normal Contract PerformanceFebruary 7, 2023
If Alleged Disparate Treatment Implicates Highly Technical Esoterica, GAO Will Probably Defer to the AgencyFebruary 7, 2023
Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking – Challenge Period for Validation of Asserted Restrictions on Technical Data and Computer SoftwareFebruary 7, 2023
“You Sit on a Throne of Conjecture!” How Did the Agency’s Assumptions Deep Six this Award?February 6, 2023
Protester Never Got a Chance to Respond to “Errantly-Delivered” CPARS Report. Should the Agency Have Relied on that Report?February 6, 2023
GAO Limns the Opaque Line Between Unstated Criteria and Matters Logically Encompassed by SolicitationFebruary 6, 2023
If the SSA Removes 33 Strengths Assigned by the Evaluators, He Better Have a Cogent ExplanationFebruary 3, 2023
The Experience Factor Listed Four Metrics. The Awardee Only Addressed Two. Why Did GAO Let it Slide?February 3, 2023
Awardee and Its Subsidiary Both Had Task Orders Under the Same IDIQ Contract. Why Didn’t this Create an OCI?February 3, 2023
Awardee Tried to Hire Protester’s Key Personnel. Why Wasn’t this Proof of a Bait-and-Switch?February 3, 2023
